The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-23

d The cultivation of the bamboo for
!; fencing material has been begun in Cali
!!fornia., 1t is said that an acre will pro.
.duee pickets enough each year to make
sixfmiles of fence.
: Robert e. Lee camp of Confederate
veterans of Richmond, Va, is in Boston
on visit to Grand Army of the Republic
post No. 10. The ex.Confederates are
having magnificent reception.
Jonathan Owens, prosperous far
mer of Chatham county, Ga.,5 blew out
his brains with shot gun on Wednes.
day. He gave no reason but the very
satisfactory one that he was tired of liV-
ing.
= Indiana has woman who weighs
$40 pounds. yet she ran tramp over
three fences and across g. meadow, and
pounded him until he had to be hauled
off in a wagon. If she had only sat
down on him they would have had to
scrape over an acre of ground to lind
him.
To the article by Prof. Patton, Of
Princeton, in the Forum for June, "Is
Andover Romanizing?" the coryphous of
the Andover theologians, Prof. Newman
Smyth, will make reply in the same
Review for July, under the striking, not
to say aggressive, title, us Princeton
Humanizing?"
"A bachelor one day set the table in
his lonely abode with plates for himself
and an imaginary wife and five children.
He then sat down to dine, and as often
as be helped himself to food he put the
same quantity on each of the other
plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the
same time computing the cost. He is
still bachelor.
= Miss Rachell Mann, of Gettysburg,
ILL.,, has obtained $500 damages against
Isaac Vanscyke, whom she sued for
$1,000 for being the cause of her keeping
company with Robert Shenick, mar
ried man of family. Vanscyke, it was
claimed, introduced him to her as sin.
gle man under the assumed name of
Charles Martin.
- Houston, Texas, Age:: There is an
idea up north that every Texan is sort
of moving arsenal. That he goes about
loaded down with six.shooters and
bowie.knives. That impression, how
ever, is liable to be dissipated when the
northern people see the perfect ease and
safety with which small squad of high
waymen, not exceeding q half dozen in
number, capture and rob passenger trains
near Austin and Fort Worth.
Richard Williams, of Manchester, in
attempting to jump on the southern bound
train while it was crossing the railroad
bridge over James River, at Richmond,
Used his footing and was thrown from
" . bridge to the falls below, a distance
of sixty feet. In falling he made several
turns and finally struck the water feet
first. Those who witnessed the fall ex.
pected to see Williams killed, but he was
rescued with only his collar bone broken
and several severe bruises.
An old lady in New York city, who
when in England in 1910, became the
happy possessor of piece Of Queen Vic.
toria's famous wedding cake, and who
has treasured it as an "object of bigotry
and virtue" forty.seven years, sent il
back to-day to the Empress OF India, in
honor of the semi-centennial jubilee
anniversary of the latter's reign. The
cake and heavy frosting, though as dry
as dust, are still appetizing in both
smell and appearance.
A man who has more time than
money has taken the trouble to find out
how far farmer has to walk to cultivate
forty acres of corn. To plow the ground
With sixteen.inch plow, be walks 950
miles to harrow the ground thoroughly
before planting, he walks fifty miles; to
cultivate it afterwards, he walks 300
miles, making grand total of f7O0 miles.
besides. the gathering. Brooding over
information like this is one of the things
that makes farmers sons too tired to
stay on the farm. AS set.off, somebody
ought to find out how many miles dry
goods clerk walks in day.
"A grand jury in Gainesville, Ga, it
is related, had found, some years ago,
bill of indictment against person for
carrying concealed weapons. One ofthe
jurors arose aud said: "We have found
q bill against that man; now let US
search the grand jury for concealed
weapons" It was found that he, the
foreman and FIVE other jurors had pistols
in their pockets. When they recovered
from the shock of this discovery the
indictment was torn up and thrown
away.
= Atlanta, Ga, has a ghastly joker in
the person of a clerk in an undertaker's
establishment, who had for some time
been in the habit of playing dead man.
1t has been bis custom to enfold himself
in shroud, lay himself in a coffin and
have it reported on the outside that 8
dead man was in the building, and they
wanted help to move him. One day
last week couple of Kentucky horse
drovers went in and offered to aid in
removing the corpse. They lifted the
coffin and had advanced few PAGES
when the corpse sprang bolt upright and
frightened the men 80 that their teeth
ratified like dry beans in tin can. For